Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
In Context
5and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 22:24Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Genesis 33:2He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 46:25These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14
Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →